‘Headless Ghost in Pre-fab’.
By Sunday Dispatch reporter.
The ghost of a headless man is causing considerable alarm to people living in prefabricated bungalows in Page-road, Bedfont, Middlesex – so much so that the police have been called in. The bungalows, which are detached, were built by Feltham Council on land which once formed part of the notorious Hounslow Heath, one-time haunt of highwaymen.
For weeks past strange “things” have been happening in house No. 42, occupied by Mr Joseph Wilkinson, a coach driver; Mary, his 27-year-old wife, and Patricia, their four-year-old daughter. They have been haunted by a headless figure. One night the little girl screamed to her parents: “There’s a man sitting on my bed.” Then, when the Wilkinsons’ dog Dusty went hysterical with fear overnight, the family sought refuge with a neighbour, Mr Walter Luke, ex-naval petty officer, who lives at No. 41 with his wife and four-year-old daughter. It was Mr Luke who sent for the police, because strange things began to happen in his bungalow.
One night last week the stillness was shattered by the crash of a heavy book on the floor. That, said Mr Wilkinson, was not so alarming as being unable to find any book on the floor afterwards.
Mr Luke is now thinking of asking psychic research investigators to visit his bungalow and the Wilkinsons’ home next door.
Weekly Dispatch (London), 28th March 1948.